'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael LöwyFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle ha...

Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International and fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible films.Following the still-unsolved assassination of the films’ producer in 1984, all the films were withdrawn from circulation for nearly twenty years. In 2001 Debord’s widow Alice began rereleasing the films and asked Ken Knabb to translate the scripts into English. He agreed, and his translations were publishe...

Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International, fomenter of the May 1968 revolt in France, and author of The Society of the Spectacle, was also the creator of six tantalizingly inaccessible films. Technically and aesthetically, these films are among the most brilliantly innovative works in the history of the cinema. But they are not so much 'works of art' as carefully calculated subversive provocations. Following the still-unsolved Mafia-style assassination of the films' financer an...

Guy Debord nos ha legado un pensamiento enormemente rico y combativo. Sin duda, es difícil encontrar algún pensador con la capacidad de Debord de dar cuenta de los movimientos del capitalismo de posguerra y que haya depositado tantas energías en intentar superarlo. Sus lúcidos análisis sobre la naciente sociedad de consumo, la crítica de la vida cotidiana, la descomposición de las vanguardias artísticas y la crítica marxista de los movimientos revolucionarios se aúnan articulando una filos...

“La società dello spettacolo” è considerato da molti come un libro cult, un testo profetico che, appena agli albori dell’era televisiva, è riuscito a cogliere la pervasività dei mass media e a predire quel dominio delle immagini mediatiche sulla realtà che solo oggi risulta così evidente in ogni aspetto della nostra vita, sempre più tendente alle virtù dell’apparire che dell’essere. Ciò, pur essendo vero, non è che l’aspetto più palese, superficiale e recente di c...

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord’s text remains as crucial as ever for understa...

This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into French theory. Jappe focuses, to the contrary, on Debord's debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukacs, and more generally t...

Il pensiero di Guy Debord è più attuale che maiQuando Guy Debord morì, il 30 novembre 1994, Le Monde gli dedicò un lungo articolo intitolato “Guy Debord, esteta della sovversione”, una definizione riduttiva che coglieva solo un aspetto della vita e dell’opera di colui che lo Stato francese avrebbe poi considerato nel 2009 “uno degli ultimi grandi intellettuali della seconda metà del XX secolo”. Riconoscimento che sembra paradossale, se pensiamo che proprio Debord e i situa...

First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideasgenerated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attackon commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everydaylife continues to burn brightly in today's age of satellite televisionand the soundbite. In Comments on the Society of the Spec...

Guy Debord was the founder of the Situationist International, the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France, which brought the entire country to a standstill for several weeks. His book The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical work of the twentieth century. Ken Knabb's meticulous new translation is the first edition in any lang...

Guy Debord's silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and inebriation. From the stark professions of Volume I to the illustrated sequences of Volume 2, Panegyric confronts us with a figure who strategically, demonically tried to wrest life from the disabling modern 'spectacle.'

"A separação trabalho-lazer foi derrotada quando o trabalho se tornou tão massivamente improdutivo e inepto (no derrogatório "terceiro setor"), e o lazer se tornou uma atividade econômica tediosa e fatigante. As desigualdades diante da cultura foram abolidas em praticamente toda parte e para quase todo mundo com o novo analfabetismo" Em junho de 1987, Guy Debord redigiu o verbete "Abolir" para a Encyclopédie des Nuisances, uma publicação periódica em 15 fascículos vigorando entre novembro ...